Praying & Equipping Ideas

Praying

Relay Prayer Card (NAMB) – Order information – The Relay Prayer Card is a practical prayer prompt helping the believers to pray for themselves and two of their group members to be good relational witnesses. It also prompts the participant to pray for up to three people who need to receive salvation through Jesus Christ.

Send North America Prayer Card (NAMB) – Order Information – The Send North America Prayer Card is a 3.5″w x 2″h generic card that can be used to aid in praying specifically for an unchurched friend, church plant, unreached people group and home church. The card includes two websites where a list of church plants and a list of unreached people groups can be located.

Equipping

One Person Focus– One person 0utreach initiatives include an intentional witness training plan and build sustained churchwide DNA and evangelism focus. The objective is mobilizing as many believers as possible to live a lifestyle of sharing.

The 1×3 Outreach Initiative is a sample initiative that asks for 3 commitments:

1 Story – Learn to share your 1 story.

1 Verse – Memorize 1 verse to share the gospel.

1 Person – Identify and share with your 1 person.

Conversational Evangelism – Authors David and Norman Geisler share an engaging, conversational approach to evangelism as they address:

What makes old models of witnessing ineffective in today’s culture

Why evangelism must start with relational pre-evangelism

How to ask questions, listen attentively and understand what someone believes

Ways to identify the real barriers to belief in order to build a bridge to truth

Contagious Christian – The popular “Becoming a Contagious Christian” training program has been completely updated and revised and can now be used in the classic seminar format, or as an exciting church-wide “Contagious” campaign. Watch your church grow as everyone is inspired and taught at weekend services (using suggested sermons provided in the new kit) while they’re trained in how to share their faith using the course materials in small groups or Sunday school classes. And it all culminates in a final outreach weekend service they can invite their friends to!

Evangelism Explosion – Both Everyday Evangelism (Ev2) and classic Evangelism Explosion (EE) lead believers share their faith using prayer, on-the-job training and multiplication. By learning small parts of the Gospel each week, including Bible verses and illustrations, people incrementally grasp a Gospel tool that becomes a lifelong mission. EE also partners believers with experienced trainers in real life witnessing situations.

Every Believer a Witness – Every Believer a Witness (EBAW) mobilizes the masses for evangelism. The material addresses the underlying reasons we don’t share and motivates each believer to begin sharing immediately. EBAW can be taught as a message series over a period of five or six weeks, or in a Sunday through Wednesday format. Topics addressed include: “destroying apathy,” “developing know-how,” “defeating fear,” and “appropriating divine power.”